There are a number of reasonably priced streamers, one from Marantz (theirs are called ‘Network Audio Players’) springs to mind (NA6006, £440ish). IMO if you can take the bluetooth part of the setup out of the […]

BT Sports are showing a whole bunch of classic football shows from the early 70s onwards at the moment; some lovely old kits on show, especially away versions e.g. Crystal Palace, Leeds, Everton etc.

I seem to recall when I was a kid we had 3D cardboard heads of kings of England on our wall that my dad had cut out from a cereal packet.

Mine are all Manchester City:
1956 FA Cup Final – maroon with white pin stripes
1969 FA Cup Final – red & black stripes as per Milan
1972 home – sky blue, round neck, badge central
1988 or so away – maroon & […]

but he uses all those big words!

Likewise. I would’ve been 13-14 during their heyday, but was a budding rock snob so they were rubbish, and embarrassing.

He is, as has been said of Boris Johnson among others, the stupid person’s idea of what an intelligent person sounds like.

I really enjoyed the Jack Irish films, and your man was excellent as you say.
For a long time I would answer similar questions with two names – Jack Thompson & Brian Dennehy. The films they were in may not have […]

Wasn’t Duncan Ferguson’s nickname, due to his off the field activities, Duncan Disorderly?

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This story supports Lewisohn’s assertion (on the Word in Your Attic webcast thingy) that THe Beatles’ story is the greatest of all time due to the dazzling amount of connections, coincidences etc in their story. […]

Unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like his shelves have been built the ‘wrong’ way, with the short piece on the horizontal rather than vertical. There are lots of photos on the net of what can happen if shelves […]

I have Chromecast Audio, and TBH I fell out with it as it was a bit of a faff to get working every time. Now, I don’t often use my phone to stream audio, so it may have been operator error. I bought an iFi ZEN […]

Paddy McAloon, Neil Hannon, XTC, Piper at the Gates. Now I have to hear this – any samples available online anywhere?

The 1936 Hitchcock film ‘Sabotage’ has a bomb on a London bus. Might be it?

All of the later, ‘challenging’ SW albums had the lyrics in the package, but sometimes they were laid out in such a way as to be almost unreadable.

I’ve always loved it as well, and have been spending some time over the last few days trying to find out. On a hunch, based on the headstock & logo shape, I thought it might be a Gretsch. Some digging around on […]

has Mark Heap even done anything even close to bad?

Most drummers appearing on the same stage as Jim Keltner or Steve Gadd are going to struggle.

I was having the same problem with mine, and cured it by ensuring the TT was completely level. A spirit level is your friend here – check both side to side & front to back.